A regional school on Democracy and Democratization in Asia has been organized within the framework of the MA course in Inter-Asia NGO Studies (MAINS), SungKongHoe University, Seoul. The course looks into the dynamics of societal changes and examines how people’s learning has been influencing the processes of democratization and social change. Practical learning from people’s participation in democratization processes and movements and resistance against hostile forces based on participants' experience is another important dimension of the course. Learning from the grassroots development organizations is another major feature of the course.

ARENA decided to join the IMADR appeal, A call for the Campaign Against Exploitative Migration and Human Trafficking. Full text is below.

Nowadays, neo-liberal globalization tends to be increasingly feminized and informalized, due to the polarization of the global economy where the rich get richer and the poor poorer. This is one of the root causes of exploitative migration including human trafficking and migrant smuggling.